Bohrium element chemistry

Kratz, J.V. Chemistry of Seaborgiuim and Prospects for Chemical Studies of Bohrium and Hassium , In Proceedings of The Robert A. Welch Foundation 41st Conference on Chemical Research, The Transactinide Elements , Houston, Texas, 27-28 October 1997, pp. 65. 

For element 104 the names Kurchatovium (Ku) and Rutherfordium (Rf) were proposed by the groups at Dubna and Berkeley, respectively, thereby emphasizing their claim to the discoveries. The International Union on Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC) has now decided on the following names element 104 Rutherfordium (Rf), element 105 Dubnium (Db), element 106 Seaborgium (Sg), element 107 Bohrium (Bh), element 108 Hassium (Hs), and element 109 Meitnerium (Mt). In the Periodic Table and nuclide charts we have thus used io4Rf. 106 8 107 > 108 So far no names have been... 

The "Chemistry in Focus" segment The Chemistry of Bohrium discusses element 107, bohrium (Bh). What is the expected electron configmation of Bh ... 

When a scientist discovered a new element in the early days of chemistiy, he or she had the honor of naming it. Now researchers must submit their choices for a name to an international committee called the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry before they can be placed on the periodic table. In 1997, the lUPAC decided on names for the elements from 104 through 111. These eight elements are now called rutherfordium (Rf), dubnium (Db), sea-borgium (Sg), bohrium (Bh), hassium... 

One of the best uses of the periodic table is to predict the properties of newly discovered elements. For example, the artificially synthesized element bohrium (Z = 107) is found in the same family as manganese, technetium, and rhenium and is expected to show chemistry similar to these elements. The problem, of course, is that only a few atoms of bohrium (Bh) can be made at a time and the atoms exist for only a very short... 

Abstract In this chapter, the chemical properties of the man-made transactinide elements rutherfordium, Rf (element 104), dubnium, Db (element 105), seaborgium, Sg (element 106), bohrium, Bh (element 107), hassium, Hs (element 108), and copernicium, Cn (element 112) are reviewed, and prospects for chemical characterizations of even heavier elements are discussed. The experimental methods to perform rapid chemical separations on the time scale of seconds are presented and comments are given on the special situation with the transactmides where chemistry has to be studied with single atoms. It follows a description of theoretical predictions and selected experimental results on the chemistry of elements 104 through 108, and element 112. 

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